I think your designer did a great job designing within the grid. Even down to fitting the navigation items and icons at the top right into the grid. Sounds lie your designer is fully aware of designing within a grid. Great attention to details.
There are a few things I see that may give you bumps in the road when developing this around blueprint. 1. I'm sure you all are aware of this, but the grid dimensions are different than the default blueprint grid. You'll need to adjust these values to match the grid used in the design. 2. Technically I would start the grid at the left of the designed "container" and not at the far left of the design. Therefore the last column (within the designed container) should drop the gutter. I assume the body background will repeat, so applying a grid around the body is null and void. 3. The "big blacked thing at the left" fits within the grid, but you'll probably need to add some custom styles to get it placed right. But just like the nav items, your design paid great attention to details so that you may be able to use some blueprint styles while developing this section. I think grid designs are the fantastic and all designers should be aware of there benefits. Grid designs are (in my opinion) the easy to read, easy to modify, and very aesthetically pleasing. Especially when it comes to developing a design, when you want to add a column here or there, grid layouts and blueprint make it easy. No matter what I get from my designer, I try to apply blueprint, or some sort of grid classes to my stylesheet. It just makes life easy when you develop multiple sites and need to change things down the line. Keep up the good work. -- Sean K. Stewart On Feb 15, 11:59 am, Jérémy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm really new to BluePrint, and to CSS frameworks. Actually I ran > into the use of CSS frameworks some days agos while watching the > Compass video. And, as the company I'm working for started to make > website for it's clients, I decided to give a try to those brilliant > techniques (Compass/SASS + BluePrint), thinking it will reduce > integration time to the shortest possible. > > So I asked our graphic designer if he'd like to try some experiment : > design into a BluePrint grid. I basically thought that if the design > was built into a grid, it will be damn easy to integrate. > > But as I'm trying to integrate it right now, I feel pretty confused. I > don't even know if the designer made good use of the grid, or if I > really understand all the blueprint features. > > So before going further I'd like to know if the following design > screenshot shows a good or a bad use of the blueprint grid, and > why.http://pix.wefrag.com/i/e/5/8/4/4/1213942bc9a69bfba8857c5a26442aba.png > > How would have you done this ? (especially the big blacked thing at > the left which is over everything else). Is it a good thing to make > menu elements fit inside cells ? Is this design really not to be > integrated with blueprint ? > > And all tips to help me learn how to make good use of blueprint are > welcome :) > > Thanks, > Jérémy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Blueprint CSS" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blueprintcss?hl=en.
